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BÀI LUYỆN TẬP NÂNG CAO VỀ MẠO TỪ (EXERCISES)
I/ ARTICLES (A, AN, THE OR X)
Exercise 1. Put "an", "a", "the" and nothing.
1. My birthday is _____ Sunday afternoon.
2. It doesn't often snow here at _____ Christmas. We haven't had _____ White Christmas for
many years.
3. We came here in _____ summer of _____ 1969.
4. _____ Thanks giving is in _____ November. The Church of England dates from _____
year 1534. I like driving at _____ night. The roads are quite. Oh, I don't like driving in
_____ park. I'd rather travel during _____ day.
5. - Are you doing anything at _____ weekend?
- I don't think so.
- Well, come over on _____ Sunday.
6. _____ meals we had weren't very good. We had _____ breakfast in the hotel and that
wasn't too bad. We usually went out for _____ lunch because _____ lunch they served in
the hotel was always the same _____ dinner we had in our first evening was pretty a few,
so we tried a few restaurants. On our last evening we had _____ marvelous dinner in a
Chinese restaurant, but that was an exception.
7. Rita plays _____ violin and her sister plays _____ guitar.
8. On our trip to _____ Spain, we crossed _____ Atlantic Ocean.
9. David attended _____ Princeton University.
10. _____ Florida State University is smaller than _____ University of Florida.
11. _____ chair that you are sitting in is broken.
12. _____ Civil War was fought in _____ United States between 1861 and 1865.
13. _____ big books on _____ table are for my history class.
Exercise 2. Write a or an in the space
1. _____ unreasonable decision
2. _____ universal problem
3. _____ unit of work.

16. When I was _____ child, I used to be very shy.
Exercise 4. Put suitable articles into blanks.
1. John is _____ teacher. He's teaching in _____ school in London.
Every morning, he gets up at 7 o'clock, has _____ breakfast and _____ cup of _____
coffee. Then he goes to work by bus. He has _____ lunch at _____ restaurant (near
_____ school). In the afternoon he works until 5 or 5.30 and then goes _____ home. He
doesn't work on _____ Saturday or Sunday. He goes to _____ cinema or theatre. John has
_____ sister in Oxford and _____ brother in _____ London.
2. There are millions of stars in _____ space.
3. I'm going away at _____ end of this month.
4. The sun is _____ star.
5. What did you have for _____ breakfast?
6. Have you got _____ car?
7. How much are those potatoes? 1.20 _____ kilo.
8. Can you think _____ rich should pay more taxes to help _____ poor?

Exercise 5. Put suitable articles into blanks.
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1. He is _____ honest person.
2. My father went out to _____ sea when he was 14.
3. When do you hope to go to _____ university?
4. There's a strike at _____ hospital.
5. He is_____ one-eyed man.
6. There's _____ onion left in the fridge.
7. This is_____ useful method of learning English.
8. I've got _____ uncle.
9. Your shoes are under_____ bed.
10. There's a splendid view of_____ Lake Geneva from his hotel.
Exercise 6. Choose the correct answer.

3. On _______ Sunday my father stay in _______ bed till ten o'clock reading _______
Sunday paper.
4. He's got _______ job in _______ South and spent _______ next two years doing _______
work he really enjoyed.
5. My mother goes to _______ church in _______ morning and in _______ afternoon goes to
visit _______ friends.
6. _______ post man's little boy says that he'd rather be _______ dentist than _______ doctor
because _______ dentists don't get called out at _______ night.
7. This morning I bought _______ newspaper and _______ magazine _______ newspaper is
in my bag, but I don't know where _______ magazine is.
8. My parents have _______ cat and _______ dog. _______ dog never bites _______ cat, but
_______ cat often scratched _______ dog.
9. We live in _______ old house in _______ middle of town. There is _______ garden behind
_______ house. _______ roof of _______ house is in bad condition.
Exercise 8. Which is correct or more likely, a/an or one? If both a/an and one are
possible, write them both.
1. It weights over _______ hundred kilos.
2. I only asked for _______ pizza - I didn't want three of them.
3. I wouldn't allow _______ child of mine to be treated in that way.
4. It only took us _______ week to drive to Greece.
5. I've always wanted to own _______ silver - coloured car.
6. _______ sandwich isn't enough. I usually eat four or five
7. Policies differ from _______ state to another.
8. Less than three quarters of _______ hour later, she was home.
9. All of the competitors completed the race, with just _______ exception.
10. She left home late ______ morning and hasn't been seen since.
11. The best way to learn______ musical instrument is to find ______ enthusiastic teacher.
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12. Somewhere in the distance, ______ bell rang.

"Sixteen and a half stone".
"That's ________. You should try to lose _________ weight".
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4. “_________ do you earn?".
"Not ________ money to pay all my bills!".
5. "__________ people are there in your class?".
"Forty".
"I think that's _________.”
6. “_________aspirins do you take when you have a headache?".
"About ten or twelve".
"That's ________. You mustn't take __________ that".
7. "How old are you?".
"Seventeen. I'm old _______ to get married, but I'm not old ______ to vote!".
8. "When did you last go to the cinema?".
"Quite recently. Just _______ days ago."
9. "Do you take sugar in your coffee?".
“Just ________”.
Exercise 4. Fill into gaps a indefinite quantifier: much, many, lots of, a lot of, little, most,
a little, little, a few, few.
1. It seems to me that we've had _______ assignments in English
2. How _______ material can we be expected to read in one week?
3. _______ books are not in the library.
4. I've had _______ headaches already because of stress.
5. _________ depression can be attributed to being overworked.
6. Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too _______ weeds.
7. I didn't use __________ fertilizer last spring, and that has made a difference.
8. Also, I've paid _______ attention to how ________ rain we've had.
9. I'm afraid it's rained ________ times this summer, and the grass is turning brown and
dying.

music down. I'm going to give you a warning for now.
(a) Every (b) Each (c) Much (d) Numerous
Exercise 6. Choose the best answer to complete these sentences.
1. "______ of you will graduate in June, but others will not. This is a competitive course, so
good luck," the engineering professor said.
(a) Much (b) Every (c) Some (d) Any
2. There is too ______ traffic in this city. I want to move to the country.
(a) many (b) few (c) much (d) a lot
3. There is _______ of noise coming from the house next door. Can you go over there and
ask them to keep it down? It's almost midnight.
(a) much (b) many (c) fewer (d) a lot
4. You have to get a second job because we need ______ money to make ends meet.
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(a) many (b) much (c) more (d) a lot
5. I only have a _______ orchids. However, I want to buy more in the future.
(a) some (b) few (c) fewer (d) lesser
6. Do you have _______ money to pay for your car insurance?
(a) a lot (b) fewer (c) enough (d) little
7. I need to get ______ gas. My tank is almost empty. I'm going to fill up at the gas station on
the corner.
(a) some (b) any (c) much (d) many
8. We need _______ computers for the students in this classroom. There are 20 students in
this class, but we only have 15 computers.
(a) a little (b) much (c) a lot (d) more
9. We should ride our bicycles to work more so that we can cut down on air pollution. There
is too _______ pollution in this city.
(a) many (b) few (c) much (d) some
10. You have _______ of candles in your house. Why do you so many of them?
(a) some (b) much (c) a lot (d) many

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KEY
1. MẠO TỪ
Exercise 1:
1. nothing
2. nothing, a
3. nothing, nothing
4. nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, the dark, the day
5. the weekend, nothing
6. the meals, nothing, nothing, the lunch, the dinner, a marvelous dinner.
7. the violin, the guitar.
8. nothing, the Atlantic Ocean.
9. nothing
10. nothing, the University
11. the
12. the Civil War, the United States.
13. The big books, the table.
Exercise 2:
1. an
2. a
3. a
4. a
5. an
6. an
7. a
8. a
9. a
10. an
11. an

8. the, the.
Exercise 5:
1. an 6. an
2. nothing 7. a
3. nothing 8. an
4. the 9. the
5. a 10. nothing
Exercise 6:
Downing street
St. Jame's Park, Buckingham Palace
Liverpool University
The Daily Telegraph the Times
Orly Airport
St Matthew's Church
school
school, at the hospital
prison
the prison
the church
church, church
apples
women, men
coffee, tea
most people, marriage, family life
life, electricity
skiing, swimming
the Second World War
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the beds

5. few
Exercise 3:
1. How many, too many, any
2. How much, too much,
3. How much, too much,
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4. How much, enough
5. How many, enough
6. How many, too many, as much as
7. enough, enough
8. a few
9. a little.
Exercise 4:
lot of many
much a lot of
a lot of a little
a few lot of
a little little
many a few
much most
most, much a lot of
many
Exercise 5:
d c
d a
a c
c d
a d
Exercise 6: